Cracker or wafer holder



Feb. 6, 1940. w, E, ROBINSON 2,189,450

CRACKER OR WAFER HOLDER Filed Feb. 6, 1939 /Wyen 227;

Patented F eb; 6,*1940 A UNITED.. STATES y PATENT OFFICE y 2,189,450 cRAcKER on WAFER HOLDER William E. Robinson, Taft, Calif.

Application February s, 1939, serial No. 254,848 '4 claims. (C1. (i5- 15)l This invention is a device for holding rectan- V gular crackers, wafers, confections and various other foodproducts in a vertical position as .to their side faces, that is, having means for sup- 5 porting the articles on bottom edges diverging from a lower corner at the bottom of a vertical cliagonal.-

It is an object to pro-vide a more or less individual service, Wafer-like food holder in which l a considerable number' of the wafers are stood facente face in a horizontal row,

A further object of the invention is toprovide a wafer holder which is of very simple structure, v

of low cost oi manufacture and therefore sale l price, which is free of functionally movable parts,

and issubstantial and is easily kept in a clean and attractive condition.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simple and practical method for the ready inanufacture of the holder,

' The invention consists of certain advancements in this artes set forth in the ensuing disclosure and having, with the above, additional objects and advantages as hereinafter developed, and whose other suitable material, and having a central,v

longitudinal, preferably V-shaped channel 3, here from end to end of the base. 4- ,LU Into this channel 3 there is reposed a complementary corner angled of a preferably `rectangular-section trough `having a length about equal to that of the base 2; the trough being of any suitable material which may be easily kept clean.'

The trough 5 is suitably afxed to the Walls oi the channel as by small brads, nails or screws 6 passing into the base 2, though it may be otherwise joined to the base if so desired.

Adjacent to each end of the trough 5 its Walls are perforated at 1-1 in opposite manner to receive respective ends of a pair of ywafer kface supports in vthe form of wire balls which have .end hooks 9 9 to be passed through and vinter hooked with the holes 'l-l, though these ends supports 8- 8 may be of other form and means ,of attachment. 5

and forming means to receive the bottoml edges of i0 the square cracker. It will be understoodthat a row of crackers laid face to face will be kept upright between ancl'by the end supports or bails The bails form effective handles by which the 315 holder may be carried, or shifted from place to place on a service table.

`What is claimed is:

l. A wafer` or the like holder comprising a stabilizing base, upwardly divergent, longitudinal 20 side walls, which are of about equal height and `ioin in an inverted apex, aflixedto the top oi the base and form an elongate trough to support facially adjacent wafers stood, with diagonals vertical, in a row in the trough; said base having a central V-channel to receive the inverted apex of the trough, v

2. The holder of claim 1, and in which said trough is securedl to the said base by fasteners driven thereinto through the apex into the base v at the said channel.

3. The holder comprising a stabilizing base,

upwardly divergent side walls axed to thetop vof the base and `forming an elongate trough along the base, and transverse end elements across the trough to support the faces of adjacent wafers stood vertically in a row in the trough, and in which the transverse elements are in the formof balls having their ends interhookedin the end portions of the said walls.

i. A wafer or the like holder comprising a 'stabilizing base oielongate form having a V-section channel along its top, a V-shaped y.trough of sheet form material having a bottom angle complementary to the channel and set therein, and means joining the bottom of the troughthrough the angle to the base, the trough having transverse wafer supports in the form of handle loops at `its ends. f

WILLIAM E. ROBINSON. 

